On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:48 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 03:08 AM 2/11/2013, neil n wrote:

> Notice it happened just at the stress raiser point where the wire enters the
> massive joint.

Yes. I see that. Makes "sense".

Never again!     ;^)

> ps - Neil, you should get hold of a Stereozoom scope or similar and turn up
> an eyepiece adapter for your camera for it.  The little pocket cameras are
> ideal for this because of their very small sensors which allow the narrow
> beam of light from the eyepiece to fill the camera field without much
> zooming.  But with or without the camera you'll be amazed at what you can
> see with the scope.  Typical zoom range is 7-35 diameters, and working
> distance about four inches.  I made an industrial-type overhanging mount for
> mine from bits and pieces of a couple drill press adapters.

Good tip. Images taken w/o the use of the magnifying light seemed
best, but even my step up Nikkon P7100 has it's limitations. I was
using the macro preset but could have improved things fiddling with F
stops and what not. (clearly I need to RTM on this)

My "mount" consisted of a chunk of wood in the vice to use as a hand rest.

I find it somewhat entertaining to try and capture images of things
like this but with this failure in particular, a tool like that would
have been handy. Thanks.

Neil.

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